Committee members are appointed by the Dean of the Faculty. The committee chair must be a senior researcher. The committees chair will consult with the chair of the University Committee for the Use of Human Subjects in Research when necessary.

The Faculty Committee discusses requests for approval for studies involving humans in the following cases:

1. Research proposals from faculty members
2. Proposals for master's and doctoral dissertations
3. Appeals regarding the approval of teaching-related research proposals 
4. Cases of accidents or of risk to participants that were discovered post-approval and brought to the attention of the Faculty and/or the Executive Committee

List of the Faculty Committee chairs:

Chair of the University Committee for the Use of Human Subjects in Research:

Dr. Hagit Magen, msmagen@mail.huji.ac.il

Members of the University Committee for the Use of Human Subjects in Research are appointed by the Rector of the University. The committee discusses approval requests for studies in the following cases:

• Approval of research proposals for funders that require the US federal IRB standard *, which must be renewed annually.
• Precedent requests submitted from the Faculty Committees.
• Requests that exceed the authority of the Faculty Committees, such as studies involving vulnerable populations, e.g. children, pregnant women, legal dependents, soldiers, prisoners and the disabled.
• As an appellate authority for  the decision of a faculty committee.
• In cases of accidents or risks to participants discovered post-approval and brought to the committee’s attention.

In the case of an appeal hearing on a decision of a Faculty Committee, the decision of the University Committee for the Use of Human Subjects in Research is final.  For any other hearing, the decision of the University Committee for the Use of Human Subjects in Research may be appealed. In this case, the committee will discuss the matter again and  will render a final decision.

* The committee acts as an Institutional Review Board (IRB), and is committed to the rules for composition and defined modes of operation as  described on the NIH website. Various funders, especially the NIH, require adherence to such a standards as a condition for funding research that they sponsor. The University Committee for the Use of Human Subjects in Research holds Federal Wide Assurance (FWA) from the NIH.

Each committee must maintain orderly records of all of its activities, and these records must be kept for at least seven years. The University Committee for the Use of Human Subjects in Research will likewise maintain its minutes. The documentation to be stored must include:

• Committee compositions and appointment dates  for each member
• Work rules and information on the decision-making process
• Application receipt dates hearing details and decision statements
• Dates of notifications to the applicants of committee decisions
• The decision statements sent to the applicants